Drapery liner



Jan. 2l, 1969 E. J. RYAN 3,422,879

DRAPERY LINER Filed Sept. 20, 1966 Sheet of 2 INVENTOR.

Jan. 21, l

Filed Sept.

E. J- RYAN DRAPERY LINER I NVENTOR.

United States Patent C) 4 Claims ABSTRACT F THE DISCLOSURE A drapery liner consisting of a sheet of flexible material sized to cover a pleated drape without projecting beyond the edges thereof which has a strip of looped fringe sewed across the width of the sheet slightly below the top margin thereof, the sewing of the fringe also providing the top hem, the loops of the fringe being suiciently narrow and short to restrict lateral shifting of the liner, and the fringe loops being close enough together to provide alignment with conventional drape pins used to hang the drape, which pins are received through the loop, the top of the liner hiding the fringe and a portion of the pins from view.

This invention relates to a detachable drapery liner or backing having a contiguous series of drapery pin suspension means across the width thereof on the drapefacing side to suspend the liner with the drape. More specifically, this invention relates to an easily mounted drapery liner having a strip of looped fringe extending across the width thereof on the drape-facing side thereof and near the top edge thereof to provide a row of drapery pin receiving loops.

Drapes are frequently lined to give body thereto, to render the drape less transparent and to provide a ther-mal barrier. Drapes with permanently aixed liners are heavy, expensive, diicult to clean, and limited in use to particular conditions. While detachable drapery liners are known, the suspension or mounting means therefor are expensive, require unsightly visible suspension means, and are not adapted for many of the widely varying drape suspensions.

According to this invention, a sheet of drapery liner fabric is cut to size and formed with marginal hems to provide a backing or liner that will cover the back or window side of a drape without being visible from the room side of the drape. A strip of looped fringe or webbing is sewed to the inner or drape side of the fabric along the top hem, preferably with the same stitching that forms the top hem. The loops of the fringe extend upwardly along the length of the strip in contiguous relation, but terminate below the top of the liner. These loops may be limp, but are preferably not more than an inch or so wide so that their bight portions or apices cannot shift appreciably in a horizontal direction. Standard drapery pins are threaded through the loops at positions coinciding with the drape mounting positions of the pins and serve the dual function of supporting the drape and the liner from standard rod carriers. The narrow loops will prevent horizontal, as well as vertical movement, of the liner relative to the pins. Since the loops and fringe are on the drape-facing side of the fabric and do not project above the top of the fabric, they are disposed between the liner and the drape to be hidden from view. In addition, the top of the liner projects above the bottom portions of the drapery pins to also hide the pins.

It is then an object of this invention to provide an nexperis'ive detachable drapery liner with a row of contiguous loops selectively receiving the same pins that suspend the drape and accommodating any pin spacing without stretching or contracting the liner.

Another object of this invention is to provide a detachable drapery liner with a row of successive adjacent loops along the top margin thereof to receive drapery pins for suspending the liner with the drape.

A specific object of this invention is to provide a detachable drapery liner with a strip of looped fringe on the inner or drape-facing side thereof and below the top thereof to receive conventional drapery pins in the loops thereof in such a manner that both the loops and the pins are between the liner and the drape and are not visible from either the room or window side of the drape and liner combination.

A still further and specific object of this invention is to provide a hemmed removable drapery liner where the top hem carries a strip of looped fringe to provide a suspension means for the liner and wherein the same stitch- 1ing is used to form the hem and anchor the fringe to the iner.

These and other objects of this invention will be apparent to those skilled in this art from the following detailed description of the annexed sheets of drawings, which, by way of a preferred example, illustrate one embodiment of the invention.

On the drawings FIGURE l is a room side elevational view of a drape and liner assembly according to this invention;

FIGURE 2 is a view similar to FIGURE l, but showing the window side of the assembly;

FIGURE 3 is an enlarged fragmentary and broken elevational view of the assembly of FIGURES l and 2, showing the manner in which conventional drapery pins are threaded through the loops of the liner fringe to support the drape and liner;

FIGURE 4 is an enlarged fragmentary horizontal cross-sectional view taken along the line IV-IV of FIG- URE l;

FIGURE 5 is an enlarged fragmentary view of the window side of the assembly, similar to FIGURE 2, and with parts broken away to better illustrate the attachment of the liner to the drapery pins and the attachment of the drapery pins to the carriers of a traverse rod;

FIGURE 6 is a vertical cross-sectional view taken along the line VI-VI of FIGURE 5;

FIGURE 7 is a broken elevational View of the drapefacing side of the liner with a portion broken away to show an underlying part; and

FIGURE 8 is an enlarged vertical cross-sectional view taken along the line VIII-VIII of FIGURE 7.

As shown on the drawings In FIGURES l and 2, the reference numeral 10 designates generally a drape and drapery liner combination or assembly, according to this invention. The assembly 10 is suspended from a conventional curtain or traverse rod 11 having a series of roller carriers 12 riding therein, as is known in the art. The rod 11 is affixed to the wall 13 of a room or the like, and the assembly 10 covers a window (not shown).

The assembly 10 includes a conventional pleated drape 14, shown in FIGURE l, and a detachable drapery liner 15, shown in FIGURE 2. The drape 14 has a conventional top hem 16 with pleates 17 at spaced intervals across the width thereof.

As shown in FIGURES 4 and 6, the pleats 17 project from the room face or side of the drape 14, Iand the hem 16 provides a recess or pocket 18 with an open bottom. Conventional drapery pins 19 mount the drape on the rod carriers 12. In the form illustrated and best shown in FIGURE 3, these pins 19 have a back portion 20 and a hook portion 21. The back portion is composed of two parallel legs 22 with eye ends 23 and a looped bottom 24. The hook portion 21 is secured to the bottom of the looped portion 20 and is curved outwardly therefrom as at 25 to a leg 26 in front of and between the legs 22. The upper portion of this leg 26 is bent to form a downwardly opening hook 27. The back 20 is inserted into the pocket 18 with the legs 22 straddling the pleat 17, as shown in FIGURE 4. The hook portion 21 then extends rearwardly from the drape and is mounted in a receiving hole of the rod carrier 12. Therefore, the drape 14 is suspended from the rod 11 through the drapery pins which are mounted in the head or top hem of the drape. It will be understood, of course, that other forms of drapery pins could be used.

The liner 15 is composed of any suitable fabric, plastic material or the like sheeting, vhaving the desired characteristics for the particular installation intended. Thus, where thermal insulation is desired, the liner 15 could be composed of heavy canvas or even plastic-impregnated material. Where a light barrier is desired, the liner material can have the desired translucency. In some instances, light weight transparent liners are desired to protect the window side of the drape without acting as a complete shade.

The sheeting to form the liner 1S is cut to size and is provided with side hems 28, a bottom hem 29 and a top hem 30. These hems are folded so as to be on the drape-facing side of the liner, as best shown in FIGURE 8. Weights 31 are preferably sewed into the intersections of the side and bottom hems to cause the liner to hang properly. The hemmed liner 15 is sized so that it will cover substantially all of the fully opened drape without extending beyond the margins of the drape so that it will be invisible from the room side of the drape. Since pleated drapes will flare out when fully drawn and will be narrower at the top than at the bottom, the liner is preferably cut so as to be wider than the pleated portion of the drape but narrower than the bottom of the drape.

According to this invention, a strip of looped fringe 32 is aixed across the width of the drape-facing side of the liner near the top thereof, but positioned so that none of the strip projects beyond the liner margins. This strip 32 is preferably knitted or woven from two sets of yarns, including a body forming yarn 33, as best shown in FIGURE 3, and a heavier loop-forming yarn 34. The yarn 33 is stitched in tightly adherent sinuous fashion, with the loop-forming yarn 34 stitched at intervals with the yarn 33 to be tightly fastened thereto at contiguous legs 35 and to project in U-shaped loops 36 above the top of the yarn 34. The tops of the loops 36 terminate well below the top of the liner 15. As shown in FIGURE 8, the same stitching 37, used t form the top hem 30, is also used to sew the strip 32 to the liner 15.

As shown in FIGURE 3, the drapery pins 19 are used to support the liner as well as the drape, and for this purpose, the'pins are threaded through selected loops 36 with the loops resting in the bowed portion 25 of the hook 21. The loops 36 fit snugly in this bowed portion 25 between the leg 26 of the hook and the bottom portion 24 of the back portion 20.

Since the pleats determine the location or stations for the drapery pins 19, it is important for a smooth hanging of the liner that a wide variety of choices be available for receipt of the pins. Thus, if the pin-receiving stations on the liner did not coincide with the drape-controlled positions of the drapery pins, the liner would not hang evenly nor would it fold smoothly with the drape. Because the loops 36 are immediately contiguous, a loop 36 is always positioned at a pin station and the liner can be easily and quickly hung from the same pins which support the drapes.

The loops 36 are narrow and short to eliminate sway between the liner and pins. Since the fringe 32 is sewed to the drape-facing side of the liner 15 and does not project beyond the margins of the liner and since the drape header or top hem extends above the liner in front of the traverse rod, the fringe is not visible from either the room or the window sides of the assembly, as is clearly evident from FIGURES l and 2. Further, the dop portion of the liner will cover the bottom portion of the drapery pins, as shown in FIGURE 2, thereby adding to the pleasing appearance of the window side of the assembly and preventing scratching of the woodwork by the pms.

With the loops 36 seated between the bowed portion 24 of the back 20 of the drapery pins 19 and the portion 25 of the hook portion of these pins, they are confined against free sliding movement, and lateral shifting of the liner relative to the drape is effectively prevented. Further, as explained above, the loops are quite narrow and short to thereby provide top bight portions which are quite steep to prevent lateral shifting.

From the above description, it will thus be understood that this invention provides an economical universally adaptable detachable drapery liner using standard drapery mounting for its suspension with the drape.

Although minor modifications might be suggested by those versed in the art, it should be understood that I wish to embody within the scope of the patent granted hereon, all modifications as reasonably and properly come within the scope of my contribution to the art.

I claim as my invention:

1. A detachable drapery liner adapted to cover the window side of a top pleated pin supported drape without extending beyond the margins of the drape while suspended from the same pins which support the drape, which comprises, a sheet having hems around the periphery thereof, said hemmed sheet being wider than the top pleated end of the drape to be lined thereby, narrower than the bottom of the drape and shorter than the height of the drape, weights in the sheet hem at the bottom corners thereof, a strip of looped fringe sewed on the drape-facing side of the sheet across the width thereof lwith the same stitching forming the top hem, said fringe having a series of contiguous narrow loops projecting from the top thereof and terminating below the top of the sheet, and said loops adapted to receive the drapery pins at the positions determined by the pleats of the drape for mounting the sheet in non-shiftlng covering relation to the drape with the fringe and a portion of the pins being hidden from view.

2. The liner of claim 1 wherein the fringe is composed of first and second strands of yarn with the rst strand stitched in side-by-side convoluted form to provide a band and the second strand is secured in sinuous fashion to the band with contiguous legs traversing the band and bight portions extending from one side of the band.

3. A drapery liner which comprises a sheet of flexible material sized to cover a drape without projecting therebeyond, a strip of looped limp yarn fringe sewed across the width of said sheet, said sheet having a top hem across the width thereof, the stitching attaching the said frmge to the said sheet being the same as the stitching formmg the said hem, the said fringe and the said folded-over portion of the said hem on the side of the said sheet which is to face the drape, the top of the said fringe terminating below the top of the said sheet so as to hide the said fringe from view when the said sheet 1s 1n a drapery-lining position, said strip having contrguous narrow flexible loops projecting from the top edge thereof with closed bight portions terminating below the top of the sheet, and said loops being sufciently narrow and short so that the bight portions thereof are restrained against appreciable lateral shifting, whereby a suflicient number of loops are provided to insure substantial alignment with conventional drape pins regardless of the spacing of the pins, as determined by the drape, and said pins can be threaded through the aligned loops to support the liner with the drape in nonshifting relation.

4. A drapery assembly comprising a drape having a top pleated hem with pin-receiving pockets, drapery Suspension pins having back legs in said pockets straddling each pleat, said pins having hook portions extending from the bottoms of the back legs to overlie the back face of the pleat and to receive a rod carrier, a fabric drape liner having a strip of fringe secured across the Width thereof near the top edge on the drape-facing side thereof, said liner hemmed across the top thereof, the stitching attaching the fringe to the liner and the stitching providing the hem being the same, said fringe having narrow closely spaced yarn loops projecting from the top edge and terminating below the top of the liner, the hook portions of said pins threaded through loops of the fringe aligned with the pins, said loops being conned between the bottoms of the back legs and the hook portions of the pins in non-shifting relation to suspend the liner with the drape for co-movement therewith, and the 1,892,448 12/1932 Chapman 160-388 X 2,280,697 4/ 1942 Gaines 16C-389 2,609,043 9/1952 Dubinsky 160-124 2,859,810 11/1958 Sachs l60-124 3,047,060 7/ 1962 Heimberg 160330 3,237,261 3/1966 Homonoff 160-349 X DAVID J. WILLIAMOWSKY, Primary Examiner.

15 P. C. KANNAN, Assistant Examiner.

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